Africa
urged to tackle illiteracy
Africa needs to achieve
a minimum of fifteen percent graduate workforce for it to compete effectively
in the global economy.
Rector
of African Virtual University, AVU, Dr Bakary Diallo, who made the
observation during the launching of the AVU multinational project at the
University of Port Harcourt, said there was so much optimism surrounding
Africa’s growth potential.
Published in Vanguard Newspaper on Sunday,
9th December, 2012
Oil communities
Petition RMAFC, Want Derivation Board Established
Oil producing communities in Delta
State have petitioned the Chairman, Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal
Commission (RMAFC), demanding among other things, that a derivation board whose
members will be recommended for appointment by the President on the advice of
the leaders of oil and gas communities be set up.
Published in ThisDay Newspaper on Sunday,
9th December, 2012
Gynecologists Urge Free, Compulsory HIV Services for
Pregnant Women
Society of Gynecologists and Obstetrics of
Nigeria (SOGON) has appealed to the Federal Government to make HIV services
free and compulsory for all pregnant women, to prevent the transmission of the
disease from mother to child.
Published in ThisDay Newspaper on Sunday,
9th December, 2012
YouWiN! Mentors Tasked on Commitment
The project lead, YouWiN! Women and
Mentoring Programme, Mrs. Snow Ogunjimi, has appealed to selected mentors under
the programme to be committed in nurturing their assigned mentees to success in
their respective businesses.
Published in ThisDay Newspaper on Sunday,
9th December, 2012
GE
partners Junior Achievement to inspire Nigerian Youths
Advanced technology and
Capital Company, General Electric (GE) has collaborated with Junior Achievement
(JA) to help students fulfill their dreams, potentials and noble purposes with
the introduction of JA Careers with a Purpose, a programme designed to assist
the youth in making the right career choices.
Careers with a Purpose is one
of the age/class specific programmes run by Junior Achievement Nigeria to
educate and inspire young people to value free enterprise, business and
economics to improve the quality of their lives.
Published in BusinessDay
Newspaper on Monday, 10th December, 2012
NDDC
plans new youth empowerment schemes
The Niger Delta Development
Commission (NDDC), is designing new programmes that would help in building the
capacity of youths with a view to engaging them in meaningful activities.
The Managing Director, Dr. Christian Oboh, disclosed this when he
received the Speaker and other executive members of the Nigerian Youth
Parliament at the Commission’s Headquarters in Port Harcourt.
Published in BusinessDay Newspaper
on Monday, 10th December, 2012
Army trains 16,000 spouses, others on vocational skills
The Nigerian Army authorities say
they have trained more than 16,000 spouses and other dependants of military
personnel in skills acquisition programmes across the country.
Chief of Defence Staff, Olabisi
Ibrahim disclosed this while declaring open the 2012 skill acquisition training
for spouses and dependants of Armed Forces personnel in Calabar, Cross River
State.
Published in BusinessDay Newspaper
on Monday, 10th December, 2012
Erosion
devastates Anambra communities
Anambra State Government has been called upon to declare
Ekwusigo Local Government Area on erosion disaster zone.
Chairman, Anambra State House of Assembly Committee of
Information, Hon. Poly Onyeka, who made the call after conducting newsmen round some of the devastating Areas of the council said that Ekwusigo Local Government area had more 40 serious erosion sites.
Published in Daily Sun
Newspaper on Tuesday, 11th December, 2012
Nigeria
won’t experience food shortage – Agric Minister
The
Federal Government gave an assurance on Friday that the flooding, which
destroyed farmland in 12 states, would not lead to food crisis.
Minister
of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina, stated this during
an emergency meeting with state commissioners for agriculture.
Published in Daily Sun
Newspaper on Tuesday, 11th December, 2012
Govt.
tasks financial institutions on solid minerals financing
Mines
and Steel Development Minister, Musa Sada, has urged financial institutions in
the country to establish mining desks in their establishments to aid solid
mineral financing.
According
to him, the sector’s inability to contribute significantly to the nation’s
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is because it has not been actively relevant in
the capital market.
Published in The
Guardian Newspaper on Wednesday, 12th December, 2012
FG,
stakeholders seek implementation of FOI Act
Stakeholders in the information sector on Tuesday
in Abuja reviewed the challenges that have been stalling the full
implementation of the Freedom of Information Act which was signed into law in
2011 and called for quick implementation of the Act for transparency and good
governance.
Published in The
Guardian Newspaper on Wednesday, 12th December, 2012
Nigeria
tops Chevron’s $33b global exploration, production projects
The Chevron Corporation has given priority to
development of its Usan, Agbami and Escravos Gas-to-Liquids projects in
Nigeria, under its $33 billion global investment plan for exploration and
production in 2013.
Published in The Guardian
Newspaper on Wednesday, 12th December, 2012
Mitigating
food crises through
UBA Foundation takes
read Africa Project to Abuja, Port-Harcourt
As
part efforts to rekindle reading culture among students, an initiative of UBA
Foundation, the corporate social responsibility arm of the United Bank for
Africa (UBA) Plc has visited schools in the Federal Capital Territory and
Rivers State.
The
schools visited by the foundation include Light Way Academy, Wuse 2 Abuja and
Graceland International Secondary School, Port Harcourt where copies of the
classic literature book ‘Weep Not Child’, authored by Ngugi wa Thiong’o, were
presented to the students.
Published in Daily Sun
Newspaper on Thursday, 13th December, 2012
UBEC Pledges To
Deliver Quality Basic Education
The
Acting Executive Secretary of the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC),
Prof. Charles Onocha, says the Commission will certainly deliver qualitative
and sustainable basic education to Nigerian children.
Prof.
Onocha disclosed this at the just concluded 3-day meeting with chairmen of
State Universal Basic Education Boards (SUBEB) and the Management of UBEC in
Asaba, Delta State.
Published in Daily Sun
Newspaper on Thursday, 13th December, 2012
Youths
seek support for Bakassi returnees
Youths
in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, under the aegis of Powerminds Community, has appealed
to Nigerians to support Bakassi returnees and the less privileged members of
the society in Abak.
The
youth, at a charity dinner to raise funds for the returnees in Uyo on Tuesday,
said they had yet to fully settle in Nigeria.
Published in Punch
Newspaper on Thursday, 13th December, 2012
Bad
Leadership responsible for poor health care – Mamora
Senator
Olorunimbe Mamora has said bad leadership is responsible for poor health care
delivery in Nigeria.
He
said a leadership that relies on pathological sycophants and professional
praise singers as advisers cannot improve the country.
Published in The
Nation Newspaper on Thursday, 13th December, 2012
BOI
showcases Film House project as investment success
The Bank of Industry on Wednesday showcased its
investment capability in creative projects, with the inauguration of the latest
digital cinema house in town, The FilmHouse Project. The FilmHouse is a cinema
development company.
Published in Punch
Newspaper on Friday, 14th December, 2012
SON commended on fight
against substandard products
The efforts of the Director-General of the Standards
Organisation of Nigeria, Dr. Joseph Odumodu, and his management team to rid the
country of substandard products appeared to be eliciting positive commendations
from the industrial sector in the country.
Published in Punch
Newspaper on Friday, 14th December, 2012
Excitement
in Calabar for 3x3 basketball
Players and officials featuring in this year’s Calabar
Carnival 3 x 3 Basketball Jam have commended the installation of a synthetic
court for the event which holds from December 20 to 23 at Akin Barracks in the
Cross River State capital.
Published in Punch
Newspaper on Friday, 14th December, 2012
Philanthropy:
Copa Lagos: FCMB promises fun
First City Monument Bank Plc, one of the major sponsors of
Copa Lagos Beach Soccer tournament in the banking category has promised to make
this year’s edition more exciting to its customers and the general public.
Published in Punch
Newspaper on Friday, 14th December, 2012
SMEDAN,
German agency provide new data on MSMEs
The Small and Medium Enterprise Development Agency of Nigeria
and the German Agency for International Cooperation have concluded and submitted
a fresh data on the state of formal and informal sector, especially as regards
the Micro, small and medium-scale enterprises in some states of Nigeria.
Published in Punch
Newspaper on Friday, 14th December, 2012
CBN,
highest revenue – generating agency – Accountant – General
The Accountant – General of the Federation,
AGF, Mr. Jonah Otunla, yesterday disclosed that the Central Bank of Nigeria,
CBN, accounted for 75 per cent of the revenue generated by Federal Government
agencies.
Published in National
Mirror Newspaper on Friday, 14th December, 2012
Workers’
protest, demand Health Minister’s sack
Health
workers, under the aegis of Joint Health Sector’s Union, JOHESU, yesterday demanded the immediate sack
of Minister of Health, Prof. Onyebuchi Chukwu, for causing havoc in the health
sector,” and for “inciting different groups in the sector against one another”.
Published in National
Mirror Newspaper on Friday, 14th December, 2012
Stop
maltreating Bakassi indigenes, FG warns Cameroun
The
Federal Government has expressed concern over reported cases of maltreatment of
the displaced indigenes of Bakassi Peninsula.
It
warned that such tendency had the capacity of truncating the peace that the
Cameroun/Nigeria Mixed Commission, CNMC, had been able to achieve since the
ceding of Bakassi to Cameroun.
Published in National
Mirror Newspaper on Friday, 14th December, 2012
Dana Air: Payment of $70,000 compensation commences
The management of Dana
Air yesterday said that it has commenced the payment of $70,000 final
compensation to the families of its ill-fated plane crash of June 3, 2012 at
the Iju – Ishaha area of Lagos.
Published in National
Mirror Newspaper on Friday, 14th December, 2012
Missing N2.1bn: Sack
Sanusi, NSPMC management
The
Coalition Against Corrupt Leaders, CACOL, has called on the Federal Government
to sack the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Governor, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi
for allowing N2.1 billion to disappear from the vaults of the Nigeria Security
Printing and Minting Company, NSPMC, last week.
Published in National
Mirror Newspaper on Friday, 14th December, 2012
FG begins work on
first gas industrial plant by 2013
The
Federal Government said it is set to commence construction of Nigeria’s first
gas industrial park in the second quarter of 2013.
Published in Daily Sun
Newspaper on Tuesday, 27th November, 2012
Government frustrated
me in ICPC – Akanbi
The
pioneer chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and other offences
Commission (ICPC) retired Justice Mustapha Akanbi has said his days in the
anti-corruption agency were those of frustration and backstabbing.
Published in Daily Sun
Newspaper on Tuesday, 27th November, 2012
Ondo plans to check
Cholera spread from Osun
Ondo
State Commissioner for Health, Dr. Dayo Adeyanju, said on Monday that medical
officers in his ministry had begun surveillance in Owena, the border twon
between the state and Osun State to check the outbreak of cholera.
Published in Daily Sun
Newspaper on Tuesday, 27th November, 2012
One Million HIV
victims can’t access drug - NACA
Federal
Government on Monday in Abuja said over one million Nigerians out of the 1.5
million persons who had been confirmed to be infected with HIV/AIDS did not
have access to Anti-Retroviral Drugs.
Published in Daily Sun
Newspaper on Tuesday, 27th November, 2012
Cross
River to build 284 housing units for civil servants
Cross
River State and the UACN Property Development Company Plc (UPDC) have signed a
memorandum of understanding (MoU) to build 284 housing units in Calabar, the
state capital.
The
284 housing units that would be completed in 30 months, in two phases, would be
known as Golf Estate; and would acquired by residents on a mortgage
arrangement.
Published in The
Nation Newspaper on Wednesday, 28th November, 2012
My commitment to
eradication of polio irreversible – Dangote
With
Nigeria accounting for 77 per cent of cases of polio, foremost entrepreneur,
Aliko Dangote, has vowed that he will deploy all in his power to partner the
government at all levels to stem the scourge.
Speaking
against the background of collaboration of his charity organisation, the
Dangote Foundation, with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to tackle the
menace, Dangote expressed worry over the image of Nigeria in the comity
of nations on account of the rising profile of polio cases, especially in Kano
State as the epicenter of the world fastest growing outbreak of the disease.
Published in The
Nation Newspaper on Wednesday, 28th November, 2012
Cross River agency
speeds up community growth
Things
are looking up in rural parts of Cross River State, thanks to its Community,
Social Development Agency (CRSCSDA).
New
roads are being built. Water is running where it never did. Facilities are
springing up in neighbourhoods. The people are smiling.
Published in The
Nation Newspaper on Wednesday, 28th November, 2012
DFIs provide N600b for
agric financing
Developmental
Financial Institutions (DFIs) have pooled about N600 billion to
finance agriculture. The institutions, drawn from the developed economies in
Europe and United States have made the funds available to the Central Bank of
Nigeria (CBN).
Under
the agreement reached with the foreign donors, the CBN is expected to make the
funds available to qualified microfinance banks for lending to farmers and
other stakeholders in the agriculture.
Published in The
Nation Newspaper on Wednesday, 28th November, 2012
Commission to spend
N600b on biometric census in 2016
The National Population Commission on Tuesday in Abuja said the
national biometric data capture for the 2016 census would gulp N600bn.
The Chairman, NPC, Chief Festus Odimegwu, made the disclosure
during the unveiling of the United Nations State of the World Population Report
2012.
Published in The
Guardian Newspaper on Wednesday, 28th November, 2012
Nigeria loses N97
billion in forex yearly to fish importation
The
Federal Government may in the next fiscal year, add fish products to the
import prohibition list, as the country was said to have recorded yearly loss
of N97 billion in foreign exchange to fish products’ importation.
The
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina, gave the
hint on the planned ban of foreign fish products, in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State’s
capital, Tuesday.
Published in The
Guardian Newspaper on Wednesday, 28th November, 2012
FDI will help in
developing countries’ potential. Says UNIDO official
The
Regional Director and Country Representative, of UNIDO, Dr. Patrick Kormawa,
has stressed the need for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), saying it will
enable countries to explore and develop their potential.
Kormawa
made this remark at the 2012 Dinner and the unveiling of ``ICC Guidelines
for International Trade,’’ organised by the International Chamber of Commerce
Nigeria (ICCN) in Lagos on Friday.
Published in The
Guardian Newspaper on Wednesday, 28th November, 2012
PETAN,
NCDMB sign MoU on content development
Petroleum
Technology Association of Nigeria (PETAN) and the Nigeria Content Development and
Monitoring Board (NCDMB) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the
NCDMB-PETAN Capacity Building Internship Programme.
Under
the MOU, PETAN companies and the NCDMB will recruit qualified Nigerian
graduates as trainees for the contract, in order to build technical skills and
experience for an initial period of one year.
Published in The
Guardian Newspaper on Wednesday, 28th November, 2012
South Korea pledges
support to Nigeria in achieving MDGs, others
The
Consul-General of South Korea in Lagos, Pilcheen Pak and the Chief Resident
Representative, Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA), Nigerian
Office, Abuja, Mr. Jung Sang-Hoon, have pledged their country’s commitment to
the Federal Government in the areas of contributing to alleviation of poverty
and achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Pak
and Sang-Hoon spoke in Lagos during the meeting of KOICA Alumni Association
(KAAN), South-West Branch, in Lagos.
Published in The
Guardian Newspaper on Wednesday, 28th November, 2012
Banks recorded N28bn
fraud cases in 2011
The
Banking sector recorded N28.4bn cases of fraud and forgeries last year, a
report by the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Scheme.
The
amount contained in the 2011 annual report and statements of accounts of the
NDIC, represents an increase of 33.4 per cent over the N21.29bn recorded in
2010..
Published in Punch Newspaper
on Thursday, 29th November, 2012
Groups plan assessment
of 200 police stations
Human
rights organisations will between 3 and 9, visit 200 police staions in 14
states to assess among other things
the detention centres and quality of services in them.
Published in Punch Newspaper
on Thursday, 29th November, 2012
Ondo
communities flay oil firm over neglect
Residents
of oil producing communities in Ondo State on Wednesday alleged that Esso Exploration
Production Nigeria Limited had deliberately ignored its social responsibilities
to them.
They
therefore threatened to embark on a peaceful protest if the company management
continued with its alleged lukewarm attitude towards their plight.
Published in Daily Sun
Newspaper on Thursday, 29th November, 2012
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